{"id":325,"date":"2016-04-14T20:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2016-04-14T20:51:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:51:31","slug":"news-paper-cutting-flight-international-2015-04-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/flight-international-magazine\/news-paper-cutting-flight-international-2015-04-05\/","title":{"rendered":"News paper Cutting – Flight International 2015-04-05"},"content":{"rendered":"

2016-04-05
\nFirst Example for Cathay gets airbrone
\nCX 1st A350-900 has begun flight-testing, conducting from Airbus’s Toulouse<\/strong> (southern part of France) site on 24 March<\/strong>
\nA350-900<\/strong> is Rolls-Royce (RR) Trent XWB<\/strong> powered aircraft
\nSo far, CX<\/strong> has made 22<\/strong> bookings for -900<\/strong> and 26 -1000<\/strong><\/p>\n

2016-04-05
\nAirbus opens a new frontier in space
\nAirbus put the emphasis on the environment inside its twin-aisles. Airbus believes it has
\nthe edge over US rivals (Boeing): personal space in the economy cabin<\/p>\n

A330neo<\/strong> (new engine option) – enters service around the end of 2017.<\/strong> Series of signature\u00a0design elements:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. enhanced LED ambient lighting<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. larger overhead storage bins<\/strong> (66% bigger than A330)<\/li>\n
  3. moving mid-cabin lavatories to a combined lavatory and galley area at the rear (similar to
    \nSpace-Flex conecpt for the A320) + “touchless” lavatories<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Airbus believes it holds a trump card<\/strong>: A380 and A350
    \n(P.s A350 is 12cm wider cabin than 787 – but BOTH – 9 abrest<\/strong> economy configuration<\/strong>)
    \nAirbus claims that A350 is more confortable than 787 because of more lateral elbow room<\/strong>
    \nwhile the A380 is equipped with 18in (45.7cm) economy seat that larger than the “industry <\/strong>
    \nnorm”<\/strong> – 17in ~<\/p>\n

    2016-04-05
    \n4,000 jobs to go as Boeing cuts costs
    \nAirframer Boeing is attempting to reduce the costs in two major programmes – 737 and 777 – transition to re-engined models over the next 5 years
    \nBoeing also is preparing to introduce the double-strectch 787-10<\/strong> in 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

    2016-04-05
    \n777X wing-tip actuator heads for testing
    \n777X<\/strong> is to use a folding wing-tip<\/strong> in order to reduce<\/strong> its 71.8m (235ft) span<\/strong> by 7m to 64.8m when parking<\/strong> – same as 777-200LR, 777 Freighter, 777-300ER<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    2016-04-05 First Example for Cathay gets airbrone CX 1st A350-900 has begun flight-testing, conducting from Airbus’s Toulouse (southern part of France) site on 24 March A350-900 is Rolls-Royce (RR) Trent XWB powered aircraft So far, CX has made 22 bookings for -900 and 26 -1000 2016-04-05 Airbus opens a new frontier in space Airbus put Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flight-international-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}